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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French étront, from Old French estront, from Late Latin struntus, borrowed from Frankish *strunt, from Proto-Germanic *strunt- (“stump”), from *strent- (“to be stiff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Dutch stront (“feces, turd”), West Frisian stront, English strunt (“tail”), Middle High German strunze (“stump”), Italian stronzo, Luxembourgish strëllchen, dialectal Swedish strunt (“a bud, sprout, offshoot”).
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Noun
étron m (plural étrons)
- turd, crap, fecal matter
1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:Il se fait foutre et fouetter alternativement par deux hommes, pendant qu’il encule un jeune garçon et qu’un vieux lui fait dans sa bouche un étron qu’il mange.- He got fucked and whipped in turn by two men, while he buggered a young boy and an old man did a turd in his mouth, which he ate.
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